I thought it was an epiphany. For me they were two disparate entities: Bob Dylan’s ‘Blowin in the Wind’ and Sam Cooke’s ‘Shake.’ Last night at Amazing Things Open Mic, host Dan Cloutier had his annual ‘Bob Dylan Birthday Bash’...

My music director for ‘Both Sides Now’, Brad Hatfield, and I were recording the two piano/vocal tunes at the end of our two day recording session at Q Division Studios last September. We finished our fifth take of ‘Both Sides Now’. Crit said he thought we...

I rolled to a stop at the town center’s main intersection. I saw them cascading down the sidewalk. A group of yellow, red, blue, green shirted middle schoolers – boys and girls – undulating along the way middle schoolers are wont to do. Laughing in a...

Monday I met with Don White http://www.donwhite.net/ for a coaching session. We were talking band members for the concert June 10th. Don referred to them as my mercenaries. I don’t disagree. Nor do I shy away from hiring a band of mercenaries. (I mean, I would if we...

We’re in wait mode. Waiting on the arrival of our grandson due early May, though Mom felt pangs last weekend. Gramma got caught up in the excitement, forgetting about the sneakiness of those early stirrings. Later thought to liken it (to Mom-in-waiting) to tremors...